Ubuntu 20.04.5 Problems with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 6GB Drivers

[#&thj^%]

Thanks for that.
your card tested out very well in what I was able to see.
what does this return please:

inxi -G

example with my hdmi active

inxi -Gz
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile] driver: nvidia
    v: 530.30.02
  Device-2: Syntek Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia resolution:
    1: 1920x1080~120Hz 2: 4096x2160~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 530.30.02 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
    Ti/PCIe/SSE2

[maiels12]

This is the output of

inxi -G

Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA driver: nvidia v: 525.89.02 
  Device-2: AMD driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: ati,radeon 
  resolution: 2560x1600~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.42.0 5.15.0-67-generic LLVM 12.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.6

[#&thj^%]

That looks bug worthy.
will this do anything for the main display

xrandr --output <outputname> --brightness 0.8

to find that main display use:

xrandr --current --verbose

I'm now very curious.
EDIT: I keep forgetting this, is there an option in your bios for switchable-graphics? if so switch to nvidia gpu only.

[maiels12]

xrandr --current --verbose

Displays Screen 0, DisplayPort-1 and then DP-1-0 through DP-1-4. A piece of Screen 0:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 1600, maximum 16384 x 16384eDP connected primary 2560x1600+0+0 (0x57) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 215mm
    Identifier: 0x53
    Timestamp:  16371083
    Subpixel:   unknown
    Gamma:      1.0:1.0:1.0
    Brightness: 1.0

Then for

xrandr --output 0x53 --brightness 0.8

Seems to successfully change brightness.

[#&thj^%]

I'm now very curious.
EDIT: I keep forgetting this, is there an option in your bios for switchable-graphics? if so switch to nvidia gpu only.
then run some of the key functions

[maiels12]

Yeah, I can choose from "Switchable" and "Discrete" - Discrete would be the nvidia GPU.
I chose Discrete. It seems that the brightness buttons now works, with a weird behavior nonetheless.
At around 30% brightness just jumps to full bright and reverts if it is set below or higher than that.

[#&thj^%]

That is normal for linux and hardware.

[maiels12]

Well, then I guess it works fine. I`ll give it a try again with a second monitor. It seems that the output of

xrandr --current --verbose

has changed too.
Thanks a bunch for the help!

[#&thj^%]

Happy to, enjoy.